Are you suffering from the same lack
of insight and collaborative ability
that stifles many organizations
today? Numbers and commentary are
isolated islands of data floating
around your network and/or locked in
desktops across your enterprise.
Reconciliation problems abound, and
aggregation of data to multiple
views can slow down or isolate
decision making and keep your
company from performing enterprise
level trending and analysis.
Here are some of the common Excel
related issues that Pinnacle can
assist
you with solving:
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Error Prone - Cutting
and pasting often results in
errors. Manual data entry
often does not foot or
balance.
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Data and Referential
Integrity - Formulas and
data sources are often out
of date or out of sync with
other exhibits.
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Aggregation and Rollups -
Multiple hierarchies are
difficult to produce in
excel; for instance a legal
vs. geographic vs. function.
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Not Scalable - Some
companies have literally
thousands of spreadsheets in
their organization. Some as
large as 30-100 Mb. which
won't transfer across
standard email systems.
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Reconciliation - Data
timing issues and disparate
source systems make data tie
out a resource intensive
task.
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Continuity of Commentary
- What happened last
month? last quarter? last
year? The answer is likely
trapped in a cell or cell
note somewhere that you
cannot access. Search tools
are of limited use.
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Inconsistent processes -
Following business
process in Excel is usually
accompanied by a Word
document listing the order
of procedures. As business
operations change, the
solution needs to adapt with
it.
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Lack of Security -
Data in Excel is very
portable and not very
securable other than at a
basic level.
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Data Inaccessible -
Information is trapped on
networks, desktops, laptops,
and portable drives - not in
a centralized location.
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Backup and Recovery -
Data is often saved in
locations that are not
accessible for backup or
recovery |
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